Susan B. Anthony (Español)

Susan B Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. Her father owned a successful cotton mill and sent Susan and one of her sisters to private school, but months after starting school her father's business failed and she lost everything. What she owned Susan had to leave school and go to work to help support her family. At that time women were not allowed to own property. So her mother also took everything she owned in the 1800s from women either. They were not allowed to attend the same schools as men, they were not paid the same salary as men and they did not have the right to vote.

Men thought that women did not have the ability to make intelligent decisions. This bothered Susan a lot, she believed. that the laws and ideas of the United States had to change at that time. Susan was the principal of a school and managed her father's farm. She knew that women were trained just like men and that they should receive the same opportunities. Susan also She was against slavery and believed that these same rights should not be denied to African Americans. Susan met other women who believed the same as her. Together they organized the National Women's Suffrage Association.

The word suffrage means having the right to vote in elections. political elections Susan wrote speeches letters and petitions to the government and newspapers with the aim of guaranteeing women's rights especially the right to vote once Susan was arrested and fined 100 for voting illegally in the presidential elections sadly For the day of death by Susan in 1906 the law had not yet been amended but women did not stop their efforts and in 192 the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution was approved this amendment guaranteed all male and female citizens the right to vote in 1979 the government remembered and commemorated Susan B Anthony and her work for women's rights by distributing a dollar coin with an image of Susan